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  • 1Department of Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada. cthorpe@mun.ca

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Male Sprague Dawley rats, unlike Long Evans rats, learned daily time-place learning (TPL) with increased response costs. This suggests strain differences in TPL task effectiveness for rats.

Area of Science:

  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Animal Cognition

Background:

  • Rats generally exhibit poor daily time-place learning (TPL) compared to birds.
  • Increased response costs (RC) may enhance TPL in rats.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate strain differences in TPL using a high RC task in male rats.
  • To determine if male Sprague Dawley (SD) and Long Evans rats differ in their ability to learn a TPL task.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a TPL apparatus requiring rats to climb towers based on time of day for rewards.
  • Compared learning performance between male SD and male Long Evans rats.

Main Results:

  • All rats learned to locate food sources, but only SD rats learned to associate locations with specific times.

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  • Demonstrated a significant strain difference in TPL acquisition under high RC conditions.
  • Observed individual differences in timing strategies (circadian vs. ordinal).

    • Conclusions:

    • Strain differences exist in the efficacy of high RC tasks for promoting TPL in rats.
    • The Sprague Dawley rat strain is more amenable to learning TPL tasks with increased demands.
    • Further research is needed to explore interactions between strain, RC, and species-typical behaviors in TPL.